With Neil Adams’ management team almost in place – we still await the white smoke for our new ‘technical director’ – the first clues have emerged as to the likely ‘look’ of Norwich City’s class of 2015.

It will be one that will look to play attractive, attacking football (David McNally promised is that much in the now infamous BBC Radio Norfolk interview), with Adams hoping to build on the encouraging end-of-season displays against Fulham and Liverpool.

The dour, park-the-bus type performance as witnessed at Stamford Bridge was, it seems, a ‘horses for courses’ approach – and not Adams’ vision of the future… fortunately.

The appointment of Joe Royle as ‘consultant’ – beside it being an acknowledgement of the new manager’s lack of experience – is, if history is anything to go by, another shot on the arm for those who yearn for the return of that unfamiliar concept called ‘passing’.

For the most part, City’s Class of 2014 fell hopelessly short in that regard and, even in the less refined atmosphere of the Championship, Team Adams will be expecting a marked improvement in that most basic of footballing functions.

I’m hopeful some astute personnel changes may help facilitate this quaint footballing notion.

Royle’s spell on the dark side – at the opposite end of the A140 – did involve him putting together a side which, if I’m being brutally honest, played some attractive passing football [there, I’ve said it ].

If that same quality on the ball can be allied with the voracious workrate he instilled in Everton’s ‘dogs of war’ and his Oldham side of the ’80s, then all may not be lost.

As a City player Holt more than lived up to his nickname of ‘Three Lungs’; a trait he has transported, in no small way due to his military background, into his coaching methods.

Robson – whose coaching credentials include a UEFA Pro Licence earned while at Charlton in 2007- is said likely to be the good cop to Holt’s bad one. The one who will be the ‘friend’ of the players, as opposed to the one barking orders and instilling some much needed discipline in the group.

Of course, only time will tell if these appointments are the right ones to take Norwich City FC forward but, regardless of the continuing outcry in some quarters, it’s a management team that City supporters may as well throw their weight behind.

They’re going nowhere for the foreseeable, and neither are the board, so it’s in everyone’s best interests to get behind them.

All the nitpicking and moaning in the world is not going to change the fact that on August 9 Adams will be sitting on the City bench with Messrs Royle, Holt and Robson close by.

As one City supporter recently put it (when tweeting of the indecision of last season): ‘shame the boil festered for so long before being lanced… will City fans ever be as one again?’